Canadian novel ‘The Sisters Brothers’ leads the top 100 best books released in Canada this year as selected by the editors of Amazon.ca

SEATTLE --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2011-- Amazon.ca today announced their annual Best Books of 2011 (http://www.amazon.ca/BestBooks2011). Chosen by Amazon.ca Book Editors, the top book picks released in Canada include a complete list of the Top 100 Books of the Year, as well as the Top Ten books in individual categories like Literature & Fiction, Cooking, Food and Wine, and Biographies & Memoirs, to name a few.

“Whether it was the triumphant return of world-renowned author, Michael Ondaatje, or the intoxicating breakthrough novel from Esi Edugyan, there were so many amazing books to choose from this year,” said John Nemeth , Director of Amazon.ca. “You don’t need to be a book enthusiast to find something on this list that will excite you or your loved ones this holiday season.”

Customers looking for books to escape into this holiday season can embark on a series of unforgettable journeys to the American Gold Rush, WWII Berlin, or Japan in the bustling Eighties. And for those looking for the perfect gift for the hard-to-please, Amazon.ca has highlighted everything from a brilliant first novel about baseball to the definitive biography of revolutionary CEO Steve Jobs .

Here are Amazon.ca’s top ten books of the year:

1. The Sisters Brothers* by Patrick DeWitt ( House of Anansi Press ) - Literature & Fiction

2. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (Crown) - Nonfiction

3. The Art of Fielding: A Novel by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown and Company ) - Literature & Fiction

4. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Bond Street Books) - Literature & Fiction

5. Half-Blood Blues* by Esi Edugyan ( Thomas Allen ) - Literature & Fiction

6. What It’s Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes ( Atlantic Monthly Press ) - Nonfiction

7. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (Knopf Canada) - Literature & Fiction

8. The Cat’s Table* by Michael Ondaatje (McClelland & Stewart) - Literature & Fiction

9. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster Canada ) - Biographies and Memoirs

10. Hot Art* by Joshua Knelman (Douglas & Mcintyre) - Nonfiction

* Books with asterisks (*) are by Canadian authors.

Thirty-four Canadian authors are included, including a veritable who’s who of home-grown luminaries such as Zsuzsi Gartner (#30), Dany Laferrière (#45), Guy Vanderhaeghe (#57), David Gilmour (#71) and Madeleine Thien (#76). Moreover, Canadian authors hail from diverse categories including Biographies (#14 - Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald ), Mysteries and Thrillers (#18 - A Trick of the Light), Outdoors and Nature (#22 - Eating Dirt) -- even Cookbooks (#23 - The Art of Living According to Joe Beef) and Comics & Graphic Novels (#82 - Hank! A Vagrant).

In addition to the top 100, Amazon.ca has also highlighted top books in multiple categories. Below are several of the categories selected and the top three choices for each. Complete lists of each can be found at http://www.amazon.ca/BestBooks2011.

Arts & Photography

1. Alexander McQueen : Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton

2. Design*Sponge at Home by Grace Bonney

3. Hard Ground by Tom Waits and Michael O’Brien

Biographies and Memoirs

1. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

2. Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald by Richard J. Gwyn

3. BossyPants by Tina Fey

Cooking, Food & Wine

1. Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton

2. The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts by David McMillan , Frederic Morin and Meredith Erickson

3. The Oxford Companion to Beer by Tom Colicchio

Entertainment and Music

1. Harry Potter Page To Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey by Bob McCabe

2. Pearl Jam Twenty by Simon & Schuster Canada

3. George Harrison : Living in the Material World by Olivia Harrison

Children

1. The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle

2. The Man in the Moon (Guardians of Childhood) by William Joyce

3. Press Here by Herve Tullet

Nonfiction

1. What It’s Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes

2. Hot Art by Joshua Knelman

3. Moonwalking With Einstein: Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer

To see the complete list of the best books of the year, go to: http://www.amazon.ca/BestBooks2011.

About Amazon.ca

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